Mechanical musical instrument.



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E. C. PHILLIPS.

MECHANICAL MUSICAL INSTRUMENT.

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E. C. PHILLIPS.

MECHANICAL MUSICAL INSTRUMENT.

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E. C. PHILLIPS.

MECHANICAL MUSICAL INSTRUMENT.

(Applicltion filed Doc. 19, 1900.)

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U ITED STATES" PATENT OFFICE-.1

ELWOOD C. PHILLIPS, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR OF THREE-FOURTHS TO CHARLES R. BARRETT, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

MECHANICAL MUSICAL INSTRUMENT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 711,674, dated October 21, 1902.

Application filed December 19, 1900. Serial No. 40,467. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern: in the present invention this bar or rail will Be it known that I, ELWooD C. PHILLIPS, have its ends beveled or chamfered off, as a citizen of the United States of America, and shown in Figs. 3 and 4, so as to permit of the a resident of Chicago, in the county of Cook perforated music sheet or band moving in a 5 and State of Illinois, have invented certain lateral manner over the same without liabilnew and usefulv Improvements in Mechanical ity to catching or tearing; 2, the perforated Musical Instruments, of which the following music sheet or band adapted to move over is a specification. the inlet bar or rail 1 and by means of its se- The present invention relates to that class ries of perforations to uncover said inlet-orixo of mechanical musical instruments in which fices in the bar l'to produce the desired notes a perforated web passes over series of musical in proper sequence; 3, the carrying drum or sound-orifices to control the same in the proroll upon which the music sheet or band 2 is dnction of a musical piece or air. wound ready for use; 4:, the winding or re- The object of the present improvement is, ceiving roll upon which the music-sheet is [5 in the main, to provide a simple and eflicient wound in a positive manner during an active multiplex carrier for mechanical musical inuse to uncover in proper sequence the inletstruments in which a series of the musicorifices to the music-reeds. sheets and their individual winding and un- 5 is the supporting-frame for the rolls and winding rolls are supported by said carrier music-sheet, and in which said rolls are jour- 20 and are capable of a movement in a common naled in any usual manner.

or concentric plane, so as to be brought in 6 is a train of spring-impelled rewindingturn in playing connection with the station gears, connected to the carrying-roll 3 and ary orificed inlet bar or rail of the musical adapted to rewind the music sheet or band instrument and with which the operator is enupon said roll ready for reuse.

25 abled to shift said carrier and bringinto play- 7 is a spur-wheel carried by the shaft of ing position any desired music-roll. the winding-roll 4 and which as the music- A further object of the present improvesheet carrier of the present invention moves 8o ment is to provide a simple and automatic into an active or playing position is adapted means for regulating the movement of'the into move into operative engagement with a 0 dividual rewinding mechanisms in the operadriving-pinion 8, the arrangement being such tion of the same immediately succeeding the that the driving-pinion 8 is common in turn shift of the carrier to bring a fresh mechanto the series of individual spur-wheels 7 of ism into playing position. the series of individual carriers of the pres- I attain such objects by the construction ent invention.

35 and arrangement of parts illustrated in the 9 is a sliding frame carrying the shaft of accompanying drawings, in which the driving-pinion 8, which sliding frame is Figure 1 is a plan view of a mechanical muconnected with any usual nickel-in-the-slot o sical instrument, with parts broken away to contrivance, so that the said frame, with the illustrate the arrangement of the present indriving-pinion 8, can be moved into opera- 4o vention; Fig. 2, an enlarged detail plan view tive engagagement with the spur-wheel 7 of of one of the individual carrying mechanisms the winding-roll 4. for the perforated music strip or band; Fig. 10 is an intermediate driving mechanism 3, a fragmentary perspective view of the connecting the shaft of the driving-pinion 8 same; Fig. 4, a detail elevation, partly in secwith a source of power that is adapted to im- 45 tion, of orificed inlet bar or rail of the mupart continuous rotation to said driving-pinsical instrument. ion 8.

Similar numerals of reference indicate like 11 is a lever pivoted centrally on the frame parts in the several views. 5, one arm of which carries a friction-shoe,

Referring to the drawings, 1 represents the hereinafter described, while the other arm 50 usual tracker rail or board of a mechanical projects into the path of an operating-stud musical instrument, formed with the usual to receive an intermittent movement, as hereseries of orifices individual to the series of inafter described.

note-producing reeds of such instrument, and 12 is an elastic friction or brake shoe attached at one end of the lever 11 and adapted to have intermittent frictional engagement with a friction disk or rim 13 on the shaft of the winding-roll 4, as hereinafter set forth.

14 is a tappet or lateral projection carried by one of the gear-wheels of the train of springimpelled rewinding-gears 6, heretofore described. Such gear-wheel will be the slowspeed wheel of the train or series and will be arranged to make less than one revolution in a rewinding operation of said train of gears.

With the described construction and arrangement of parts the tappet 14 will have active engagement with the brake-carrying lever 11 to hold the brake-shoe 12 out of contact with the rim 13 during the major portion of the time in which the music-sheet is being unwound and during the major portion of the time in which such sheet or web is being rewound and will only release the said v lever to render the brake-shoe operative as the rewinding operation nears its end, at which time the tappet will leave said lever and permit the brake-shoe to engage the rim 13 and check the momentum of the roll 4. By such means the excessive momentum acquired by the roll 4 in the rewinding operation is checked and the liability to a tearing and damage to the music sheet or Web is prevented in a very efficient manner.

11 is a spring tending to force the lever and friction-shoe 12 into frictional engagement with disk or rim 13 of the winding-roller 3.

In the present invention a cluster of independent carriers, as above described, are symmetrically arranged upon a common frame 15, mounted on a shaft 16, and which shaft is provided with a hand or pointer 17, by means of which the desired tune can be brought into playingposition.

18 is a stationary dial orindicator for guiding the person manipulating the apparatus in the selection of the desired tune.

Having thus fully described my said invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. Ina mechanical musical instrument, the combination with a tracker-board, of a series of independent traveling webs mounted on rollers, said rollers being journaled on a frame which has lateral movement and is adapted to bring the webs successively into operative position over the tracker-board, substantially as set forth.

2. In a mechanical musical instrument, the combination with a tracker-board, of a series of independent traveling webs mounted on rollers, said rollers being journaled on a revoluble frame which has lateral movement over the tracker-board .and is adapted to bring said web successively into operative position,

substantially as set forth.

3. In a mechanical musical instrument, the combination with a tracker-board, of a series of independent traveling webs mounted on rollers, said rollers being journaled on a frame which has lateral movement and is adapted to bring the webs successively into operative position over the tracker-board, and a springimpelled rewinding mechanism for each traveling web, substantially asset forth.

4. In a mechanical musicalinstrument, the combination with a tracker-board, of a series of independent traveling webs mounted on rollers, said rollers being journaled on a revoluble frame which has lateral movement over ,the tracker-board and is adapted to bring said webs successively into operative position, and a spring-impelled rewinding mechanism for each traveling web, substantially as set forth.

5. In a mechanical musical instrument, the combination with a tracker-board, of a series of independent traveling webs mounted on rollers, said rollers being journaled on a frame which has lateral movement and is adapted to bring the webs successively into operative position over the tracker-board, a spring-impelled rewinding mechanism for each traveling web, and a brake device adapted to engage a web-carrying roll and automatically controlled by the rewinding mechanism, substantially as set forth.

6. In a mechanical musical instrument, the combinationwith a tracker-board, of a series of independent traveling webs mounted on rollers, said rollers being journaled on a revoluble frame which has lateral movement over the tracker-board and is adapted to bring said webs successively into operative position, a spring-impelled rewinding mechanism for each traveling web, and a brake device adapted to engage a web-carrying roll and automatically controlled by the rewinding mechanism, substantially as set forth.

7. In a mechanical musical instrument, the combination of a tracker-board, a revolving power-shaft, a series of independent traveling webs mounted on rollers, said rollers being journaled on a frame, which has lateral movement and is adapted to bring the webs successively into operative position over the tracker-board and the carrying-rollers into operative engagement with the power-shaft, substantially as set forth.

8. In a mechanical musical instrument, the combination of a tracker-board, a revolving power-shaft, a series of independent traveliug'webs mounted onrollers, said rollers being journaled on a revoluble frame which has lateral movement over the tracker-board and is adapted to bring said webs successively into operative position and said carryingrollers into operative engagement with the power-shaft, substantially as set forth.

9. In a mechanical musical instrument, the combination of a tracker-board, a revolving power-shaft, a series of independent traveling webs mounted on rollers, said rollers being journaled on a frame which has lateral movement and is adapted to bring the webs successively into operative position over the tracker-board, and the carrying-rollers into operative engagement with the power-shaft,

and a spring-impelled rewinding mechanism for each traveling web, substantially as set forth.

10. In a mechanical musical instrument,the combination of a tracker-board, a revolving power-shaft, a series of independent traveling webs mounted on rollers, said rollers being journaled on a revoluble frame which has lateral movement over the tracker-board and is adapted to bring said webs successively into operative position and said carryingrollers into operative engagement with the power-shaft, and a spring-impelled rewinding mechanism for each traveling web, substantially as set forth.

11. Inamechanicalmusicalinstrument,the combination of a tracker-board, a revolving power-shaft, a series of independent traveling webs mounted on rollers, said rollers being journaled on a frame which has lateral movement and is adapted to bring the webs successively into operative position over the tracker-board, and the carrying-rollers into operative engagement with the power-shaft, a spring-impelled rewinding mechanism for each traveling web, and a brake device adapted to engage a web-carrying roller and automatically controlled by the rewinding mechanism, substantially as set forth.

12. In a mechanical musical instrument,the combination of a tracker-board, a revolving power-shaft, a series of independent traveling webs mounted on rollers, said rollers beingjournaled on a revoluble frame which has lateral movement over the tracker-board and is adapted to bring said webs successively into operative position and said carryingrollers into operative engagement with the power-shaft, a spring-impelled rewinding mechanism for each traveling web, and a brake device adapted to engage a web-carrying roller and automatically controlled by the rewinding mechanism, substantially as set forth.

13. Inamechanicalmusicalinstrument,the combination with a tracker-board, of a series of independent traveling webs mounted on rollers, said rollers being journaled on a frame which has lateral movement and is adapted to bring the webs successively into operative position over the tracker-board, a spring-impelled rewinding mechanism for each traveling web, a tappet carried by said mechanism, and a friction device having operative engagement with said tappet and with one of the web-carrying rollers, substantially as set forth.

14. Inamechanicalmusicalinstrument,the combination with a tracker -board, of a series of independent traveling Webs mounted on rollers, said rollers being journaled on a revoluble frame which has lateral movement over the tracker-board and is adapted to bring said webs successively into operative position, a spring impelled rewinding mechanism for each traveling web, a tappet carried by said mechanism, and a friction device having operative engagement with said tappet and with one of the web-carrying rollers, substantially as set forth.

15. Inamechanicalmusicalinstrument,the combination of a tracker-board, a revolving power-shaft, a series of independent traveling webs mounted on rollers, said rollers being journaled on a frame which has lateral movement and is adapted to bring the webs successivelyinto operative position over the tracker-board, and the carrying-rollers into operative engagement with the powershaft, a spring-impelled rewinding mechanism for each traveling web, a tappet carried by said mechanism, and a friction device havingoperativeengagementwith said tappetand with one of the web-carrying rollers, substantially as set forth.

16. Inamechanicalmusicalinstrument,the combination of a tracker-board, a revolving power-shaft, a series of independent traveling webs mounted on rollers, said rollers being journaled on a revoluble frame which has lateral movement over the tracker-board and is adapted to bringsaid web successively into operative position and said carryingrollers into operative engagement with the power-shaft, a spring-impelled rewinding mechanism for each traveling web, a tappet carried by said mechanism, and a friction device having operative engagement with said tappet and with one of the web-carrying rollers, substantially as set forth.

17. In a mechanical musical instrument the combination of a tracker-board, a traveling web mounted on rollers, a frame on which said rollers are journaled, means for unwinding said web, a spring-impelled rewinding mechanism for said web, a tappet carried by said mechanism and a friction device having 0perative engagement with said tappet and with one of the web-carrying rollers, substantially as set forth.

18. In a mechanical musicalinstrument,the combination with a tracker-board one end of which is beveled, of a series of independent traveling webs mounted on rollers, said rollers being journaled on a frame which has lateral movement and is adapted to bring the webs successively into operative position over the tracker-board, substantially as set forth.

1 9. In a mechanical musical instrument,the combination with a tracker-board the respective ends of which are beveled, of a series of independent traveling webs mounted on rollers, said rollers being journaled on a frame which has lateral movement and is adapted to bring the webs successively into operative position over the tracker-board, substantially as set forth.

Signed by me at Chicago, Illinois, this 4th day of May, 1900.

ELWOOD O. PHILLIPS.

WVitnesses:

ROBERT BURNS, HENRY A. Now. 

